Basic needs: shelter, healthcare and education should be free. But the richest country in the world cant afford it 
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Lol are you suggesting that countries who were weakened by WWI and the biggest pandemic known to man would still have had the energy to go another round?
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I did not say war was a good thing nor that it was the right way to revitalize your economy.
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I can't for the life of me understand why construction of the great Canadian-American wall hasn't started yet.
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Anyone who is on the far end of the political spectrum is a moron.
There's only one basic rule everyone should adhere to and we'd be far better of as a society if we did: be a decent fucking human being.
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I did not say war was a good thing nor that it was the right way to revitalize your economy.
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Oh please. The costs on the average citizen will absolutely come down. Only the rich will pay more. Of course it will take time given lack of familiarity with creating an efficient and effective universal public health care system, but your system doesn’t provide for a huge percentage of your population already, so the cost of your current system isn’t a true measure of the cost of privatized health care.
Just because you are a corporate, for-profit, privatized everything shill, doesn’t mean everyone is. My health care system doesn’t cost me or anyone a dime out of pocket and everyone has access to it. Taxation pays for it, like it should, as an equalizer, and the vast majority of Canadians get more than what they put in through taxation.
Your country has such health problems because you have a shit public education system and a shit health care system, that combine to create a huge population of under educated and uncared for people. But the right in ‘Murica doesn’t care, because fuck the poor, they’re just lazy SOBs trying to game the system.
Just because you are a corporate, for-profit, privatized everything shill, doesn’t mean everyone is. My health care system doesn’t cost me or anyone a dime out of pocket and everyone has access to it. Taxation pays for it, like it should, as an equalizer, and the vast majority of Canadians get more than what they put in through taxation.
Your country has such health problems because you have a shit public education system and a shit health care system, that combine to create a huge population of under educated and uncared for people. But the right in ‘Murica doesn’t care, because fuck the poor, they’re just lazy SOBs trying to game the system.
I can't for the life of me understand why construction of the great Canadian-American wall hasn't started yet.
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Anyone who is on the far end of the political spectrum is a moron.
There's only one basic rule everyone should adhere to and we'd be far better of as a society if we did: be a decent fucking human being.
Yeah and that's on top of people who need an outlet for their frustrations of losing a job or facing a difficult future.
This is a difficult place to be in. On the one hand this is serious. People do die. But on the other hand we can't afford to simply let everything go. We have to work. We have to do as much as we possibly can to keep everything going, albeit in difficult circumstances. Because if we treat this like a holiday, and believe me a lot people in Europe do, we are going to suffer.
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Who's your daddy now?
This is a difficult place to be in. On the one hand this is serious. People do die. But on the other hand we can't afford to simply let everything go. We have to work. We have to do as much as we possibly can to keep everything going, albeit in difficult circumstances. Because if we treat this like a holiday, and believe me a lot people in Europe do, we are going to suffer.
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Who's your daddy now?
Latest numbers from Italy.
4053 new cases, 837 deaths, 1109 recoveries and 2107 increase in the number of active cases.
The tenth consecutive day since the peak for the number of new cases: today's number is
38% below the peak.
Today's results are comparable to yesterday but with 10,000 more tests conducted in today's data. (29,000 vs 19,000)
The number of deaths is still high, but the death curve seems to have approached its peak.
https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/en/
4053 new cases, 837 deaths, 1109 recoveries and 2107 increase in the number of active cases.
The tenth consecutive day since the peak for the number of new cases: today's number is
38% below the peak.
Today's results are comparable to yesterday but with 10,000 more tests conducted in today's data. (29,000 vs 19,000)
The number of deaths is still high, but the death curve seems to have approached its peak.
https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/en/
It may seem like it but:
1) Without the lockdown, numbers would probably be 20,000-30,000 a day.
2) The daily number of new cases is already 38% below its peak.
The virus has an incubation period of 2 weeks, so I expect people to have kept getting infected for a large part of this lockdown.
Some of them have only started showing symptoms now, which is why the number of new cases is still in the thousands.
If the lockdown persists for 3 to 4 more weeks I expect the number of new cases to drop significantly.
1) Without the lockdown, numbers would probably be 20,000-30,000 a day.
2) The daily number of new cases is already 38% below its peak.
The virus has an incubation period of 2 weeks, so I expect people to have kept getting infected for a large part of this lockdown.
Some of them have only started showing symptoms now, which is why the number of new cases is still in the thousands.
If the lockdown persists for 3 to 4 more weeks I expect the number of new cases to drop significantly.